Church of St John The Baptist And Boundary Wall

Heritage listing

Details SK 69 SE MISSON CHURCH STREET (north side) 4/59 Church of St John the Baptist and 1.2.67 boundary wall G.V. I Parish Church, C14, C15, C16, C19: restored 1882, 1886, 1894. Lady chapel restored 1920. Ashlar, random rubble and brick, partly rendered; ashlar dressings; slate and felted roofs. West tower, north aisle, nave, chancel, south aisle, south porch. West tower C14 and C19, 2 stages; moulded plinth, 2 stringcourses pair of gargoyles to north and south, crenellated parapet with 4 crocketed pinnacles. To west, pair of angle buttresses, 3 setoffs; pair of buttresses to east, engaged with aisles, 2 setoffs. To west, C14, chamfered and rebated doorway with hoodmould containing close boarded door. Above, C14 chamfered and rebated opening with hoodmould, containing cusped head triple lancet with panel tracery. Above again, clock dial. To south above, single unglazed lancet. Second stage has 4 C19 chamfered and rebated openings with label moulds, containing cusped ogee heads double lancets. North aisle, C15 and C16, 4 bays; moulded plinth, lintel band, eaves, band moulded crenellated parapet with remains of 2 pinnacles. Diagonal buttress at corners, 2 intermediate buttresses as, all 2 setoffs. Large central C19 rubble buttress engaged with C20 brick and rubble outbuildings with pantiled roofs. All windows have square heads, rebated and splayed reveals, chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds; east window has 4 C16 round headed lancets. North wall east window has 3 round headed lancets; to right, 2 similar windows with 4 lancets westernmost bay has blockd Tudor arched doorway with hoodmould. West window has 3 square headed lancets. Nave clerestorey, 3 bays, has moulded stringcourse, 2 gargoyles each side, crenellated parapet with remains of 2 pinnacles; 3 C15 square headed

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.